HOW SEE A PRE-HISPANIC TEMPLE FROM A PARKING OF A MEXICAN SUPERMARKERT

The parking lot of a shopping center in Mexico City has opened a window to the pre-Hispanic past after the discovery in 2014 of a temple dedicated to the Mexica god of the wind, Ehécatl-Quetzalcóatl, which is more than 650 years old.

This temple is located in the archaeological zone of Tlatelolco, where you can see vestiges of the three cultures present in Mexico: pre-Hispanic, Spanish colonial and modern Mexico.

It was during the demolition of an old supermarket that the structure of this temple was found, the Mexican archaeologist Eduardo Matos Moctezuma informed EFE.

Matos Moctezuma, who is also the discoverer of the Aztecs’ main temple in the center of the Mexican capital, told EFE that this temple is dedicated to the god of the wind, which had a close relationship with Tlaloc, the god of rain, because this god was the one who ‘swept’ and prepared everything for the arrival of the rains announced by Tlaloc.

This archaeological window is part of the Tlatelolco project, which in two decades of work has allowed to discover vestiges of what was the ancient Mexica city of Tlatelolco, of which more than 35 buildings are now discovered.

In the four most recent years of work have involved 30 archaeologists and have found more than 43,000 objects of ceramics, stone, shell and bone.